2024-03-11 04:05:06
The legal action was presented on February 12 before the Eighth Guarantee Court.
On February 12, the Corporation of Santiago 2023 presented before the Eighth Guarantee Court a complaint for a “serious internal irregularity” due to the use of agreements that were signed with Copec.
Through a statement, they explained that when reviewing the mileage traveled and the fuel consumption of the vehicles that were used during the sporting event that took place between October and November, they realized that 150 patents were outside the list of official cars.
In the contract they had with the company “the consideration was the fuel exchange for a total amount of $575,400,000“. To supervise this use, at the end of last year they requested a general database with all the information on fuel loads, which was delivered to them on January 4.
“With the information received, the analysis of each of the more than 7,000 cargo records began, finding that 150 license plates appeared outside the list of official vehicles“, they recorded.
Given this, Santiago 2023 asked Copec for the “person or user information that included these patents in the system and authorized them to load fuel.”
After this investigation, they verified that the person responsible for the consumption of gasoline in 150 unofficial vehicles, which is equivalent to more than $55 million between October and November, “It was the same person, an official of the Corporationand who stopped providing functions at the end of December 2023.
That is why the complaint was filed “providing the information available on that date and requesting, among other measures, the summons to testify to all who are deemed necessary“.
Along with that, they clarified that “since it is an advertising exchange with a private company, Money contributed by the State of Chile is not involved in this event.“.